Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, Lilly Library at Indiana University, Ricketts 225. Text(s): De Vita Imperatorum, Lives of the Caesars, Familie nobiles Romanorum, Familie eorundem plebeie, List of noble families of Rome. Description: ff. 74 - Bound in blind-stamped brown morocco, c. 1900, by Leighton, gilt edges; in a green cloth case. - Perhaps Michel d’Ailly, sixth duc de Chaulnes (1714-1769, but not identifiable in his sale catalogue, Paris, 19 March 1770 and following days); probably George Watson Taylor (1771-1841), M. P. and owner of plantations in Jamaica, whose sale, Evans, 20 March 1823, included as lot 463, a fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript of Caesar and Suetonius, on vellum; Thomas Thorpe, cat. II (1823), no. 5745, and cat. III (1824), no. 16518; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872), bought from Thorpe, his MS 2665; his sale, Sotheby’s, 10 June 1896, lot 1182 (it was at one time in the library of the Duc de Chaulnes), unsold, re-offered 5 June 1899, lot 1107; Alfred Higgins, F.S.A. (d. 1903; bought in May 1903: he died in October), with his signature and booklabel; his sale, Sotheby’s, 2 May 1904, lot 228; Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921); his sale, Sotheby’s, 3 April 1922, lot 878, to Quaritch; C. L. Ricketts, bought in 1923; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961. - Schenkl 1892, p. 51; De Ricci 1935, p. 652; Ermatinger 1991, passim. Part 1: ff. 74. Description: - Parchment - 254 x 161 mm - Collation: i.

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